{"id":9522,"date":"2021-03-03T02:42:19","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T07:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=9522"},"modified":"2021-03-03T02:42:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T07:42:19","slug":"virus-variant-races-through-italy-especially-among-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=9522","title":{"rendered":"Virus variant races through Italy, especially among children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The variant of the coronavirus discovered in Britain is prevalent among Italy&#8217;s infected schoolchildren and is helping to fuel a \u201crobust\u201d uptick in the curve of COVID-19 contagion in the country, the health minister said Tuesday. Roberto Speranza told reporters that the variant, associated with higher transmission rates, has shown pervasiveness &#8220;among the youngest age group\u201d of the population. In recent weeks, Italy\u2019s incidence of new cases among young people has now eclipsed incidence among the older population, a reversal of how COVID-19 afflicted residents in the first months of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/virus-variant-races-italy-especially-210020179.html\">Virus variant races through Italy, especially among children<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-03-024104.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9524\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-03-024104.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-03-024104.jpg 271w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-03-024104-262x300.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img id=\"hzDownscaled\" style=\"position: absolute; top: -10000px;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The variant of the coronavirus discovered in Britain is prevalent among Italy&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[169,539,21],"class_list":["post-9522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-covid-19","tag-italy","tag-uh-oh","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}